Border
League 1946 - 1951 
Border
League 1946 - 1951
1946 Standings - Class C - President John G. WardName W L Pct GB Att. Manager
Playoffs: Kingston 3 games, Auburn 1; Watertown 3 games, Granby 1.
Finals: Watertown 4 games, Kingston 2.
* - Affiliated with the Philadelphia Athletics
1947 Standings - Class C
Name
W L Pct GB Att.
Manager
Ottawa Nationals
82 42 .661 -- 62,607 Paul Dean
Watertown Athletics
70 54 .565 12.0 53,600 Bob Shawkey
Auburn Cayugas
66 60 .524 17.0 59,637 Barney Hearn
Ogdensburg Maples
61 65 .484 22.0 63,486 Steve Yerkes
Kingston Ponies
49 77 .389 34.0 52,268 Ben Lady
Geneva Red Birds
46 76 .377 35.0 57,308 Charles Small
Playoffs: Ottawa 4 games, Auburn 0; Ogdensburg 4 games, Watertown 3.
Finals: Ottawa 4 games, Ogdensburg 2.
1948 Standings - Class C
Name
W L Pct GB
Att. Manager
Ottawa Senators
79 48 .622 -- 76,299 Bill Metzig
Geneva Robins
72 54 .571 6.5 66,149 Charles Small
Ogdnesburg Maples(1) 69 60 .535 11.0 60,116
Russ Wein
Watertown Athletics 63 65 .492
16.5 65,590 Fred Gerkin
Kingston Ponies(2)
49 76 .392 29.0 40,656 Ben Lady
Auburn Cayugas(3) 49 78 .386
30.0 43,102 Barney Hearn
Playoffs: Ogdensburg 4 games, Ottawa 1; Watertown 4 games, Geneva 3.
Finals: Ogdensburg 4 games, Watertown 0.
(1) Affiliated with New York Giants
(2) Affiliated with Boston Braves
(3) Affiliated with Boston Red Sox
1949 Standings - Class C
Name
W L Pct GB Att.
Manager
Geneva Robins*
81 49 .623 -- 67,259 Charles Small
Ottawa Senators 74
55 .574 6.5 78,577 Bill Metzig
Ogdensburg Maples 70 60 .538 11.0 58,749 Russ
Wein
Auburn Cayugas
67 62 .519 13.5 55,634 Barney Hearn
Watertown Athletics 58 71 .450 22.5 61,026
Frank Heller
Kingston Ponies
38 91 .295 42.5 38,671 Zeke Bonura/Harold Leach
Playoffs: Geneva 4 games, Ogdensburg 3; Auburn 4 games, Ottawa 3.
Finals: Geneva 4 games, Auburn 2.
* - Affiliated with Brooklyn Dodgers
1950 Standings - Class C
Name
W L Pct GB
Att. Manager
Ottawa Nationals
75 53 .586 -- 97,091 Bill Metzig
Ogdensburg Maples 74 54 .578
1.0 55,291 Russ Wein
Kingston Ponies
68 60 .531 7.0 52,453 Barney Hearn
Watertown Athletics 60 68 .469
15.0 65,329 Frank Heller
Geneva Robins
56 71 .441 18.5 42,353 Charles Small/Clyde Theriault
Auburn Cayugas
50 77 .394 24.5 41,755 Bib Sisler/Tom Accardo/William
Gates
Playoffs: Ottawa 4 games, Kingston 1; Ogdensburg 4 games, Watertown
1.
Finals: Ogdensburg 4 games Ottawa 2.
1951 Standings - Class C
Name
W L Pct GB Att.
Manager
Kingston Ponies
38 25 .603 -- 13,862 Barney Hearn
Ogdensburg Maples
29 35 .453 9.5 13,978 John Sosh/Irvin Schupp
Cornwall Canadians(1) 29 18 .617
N/A 4,892 Bill Metzig
Auburn Falcons(2)
26 26 .500 N/A 13,826 William Gates
Watertown Athletics(2) 22 30 .423 N/A
18,055 Bob Shawkey
Geneva Robins(1)
20 30 .400 N/A 12,405 Humberto Baez
(1) - teams disbanded June 26.
(2) - teams disbanded July 1.
The league disbanded July 16(last game played on July 10)
All Time Playoff Records
Name(Championships) W L Pct Series Series
Won
Ogdensburg(2)
25 15 .625 7
5
Ottawa(1)
18 15 .545 6
3
Watertown(1)
15 18 .455 6
3
Geneva(1)
11 9 .550 3
2
Auburn
7 14 .333 4
1
Kingston
6 9 .400 3
1
Granby
1 3 .250 1
0
A quick glance at the baseball histories of the cities.
Canadian Teams
Granby - In 1940, Granby had a team in the Quebec Provincial League with the league only lasting a year. Then played in the Provincial League from 1948-53. The league stayed alive until 1955.
Sherbrooke - Also in the Quebec Provincial in 1940. The Provincial from 1948-51 and 1953-55. Then a brief stint in the Eastern League for the 1972 and 1973 seasons. For a french based site on Sherbrooke click here As of September 2009 that site is not working, but their main site cane be found here. I will leave the old link up for people who know how to use archive.org. Otherwise go to Quebec SABR
Kingston - Kingston has had no other baseball teams professionally besides the Border League.
Ottawa - Ottawa started out in the Eastern League in 1898. Then in the Canadian League from 1912 to 1915. For two year they were in the Eastern Canadian League in 1922 and 1923. Ottawa and Hull split a team in the Quebec-Ontario-Vermont league of 1924. They joined the Canadian-American leagues from 1936-39 and joined with Ogdensburg for the 1940 season. After the Border League brought increased Attendence, they joined the International League from 1951 to 1954 and then finally are currently in the International League once again from 1993 to present.
Cornwall - Cornwall had a team that split time between Perth and Cornwall in 1937 in the Canadian-American League and then joined this same league alone in 1938 and 1939.
American Teams
Geneva - After the Border League first brought baseball to Geneva, they fielded a team in the NY-Penn league from 1958 to1973 and again from 1977 to 1993.
Ogdensburg - Ogdensburg started out in the Canadian-American league in 1936 to 1939. Then they teamed up with Ottawa to field a team for the 1940 season in the same league.
Watertown - Watertown started out in the Canadian-American League also with a team in 1936. In 1983, they joined the NY-Penn League where they currently have a team. They are one of only three cities from the Border League to currently have a team.
Auburn - Auburn is probably has the oldest baseball tradition of any city in the Border League. In the 1870's they had a professional team that moved to Troy, NY. Officially they fielded team in 1889 and 1899 in the New York State League, and moved to Troy, NY in 1899. They played in the Canadian-American League from 1938 to 1940. THey joined the NY-Penn league in 1958 and had a team until 1980. They had no teamin 1981 and then rejoined the NY-Penn league in 1982 and are currently in the same league.